A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
ALAN PERLISYou’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
More Alan Perlis Quotes
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed – it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.
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The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland, but that’s because it’s the best book on anything for the layman.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously.
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Banality soothes our nerves.
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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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